Machine for removing insect parasites from vines or plants.



No. 695,275.` Patenfed Mar. 11,: |902. l J. BRAKELEY.

MACHINE FOR REMOVING INSECT'PARASITES FROM VINES 0R PLANTS.

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@l D C) No. 695,275. Patented Mar. l|, |902.

J. BRAKELEY.

MACHINE FOR EMDVING INSECT PRASITES FROM VINES 0R PLANTS.

(Application md Dec. 1o, 17900.)

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JOSEPH BRKELEY, OF FREEIIOLD, NEWY JERSEY.

MACHlNE FOR REMOVlNG INSECT PARASITES FROM VlNES OR PLANTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,275, dated March 1I, 1902.

Application filed December lO, 1900. Seria] No. 39,393x (No model.)

To (tu 'wh/0711, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH BRAKELEY, a citizen of the United States,residing in Freehold, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements inMachines for Removing Insect Parasites from Vines or Plants, of whichthe following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide means for removing parasites orinsects injurious to vegetation from growing vines,plants, or bushes andto kill said parasites by burying them in the earth as soon as they havebeen removed from the vines or plants orbefore they have had a chance tocrawl back again. This object Iattain in the manner hereinafter setforth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view of sufficient of an ordinarycultivator to illustrate the application thereto of the means wherebyIeffect the removal of the insect parasites from the vines or plants.Fig. 2 is a plan View ofthe machine, and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectionof the same.

I have shown my invention as applied to an ordinary form of cultivator,of which l represents the arched frame; 2, the projecting pole 3, thesupporting-wheels, and 4 the gangs of cultivator-blades; but myinvention can be embodied in a special` machine, if desired, instead ofbeing supplemental to an ordinary cultivator, such special machine beingprovided with furrow-turners or being, if not so provided, driven alongthe row ahead of a cultivator.

The device employed for effecting the removal of the insect parasitesfrom the vines or plants is a transversely-swinging beater 5, preferablyforked at its lower end in order to have a double beating action whenswung in either direction,the depending portion of each leg 6 of thebeater being provided with a bar, brush, or other device for acting uponthe vines or plants as the beater :is vibrated in such manner that saidvines or plants will be shaken or agitated and, the insect parasitesdislodged therefrom and caused to fall to the ground on each side of therow, the furrowing or earth-turning teeth or blades of the machineimmediately following the'action of the beater and killing the dislodgedparasites by burying them before' they have an opportunity to crawl backupon the vines or plants.

In order to confine the dislodged insects within the path of thefollowing teeth or blades and'prevent them from being thrown from onerow ot' plants onto a row on either side of the same, I employ dependingshields or aprons 7, which may be of any suitable materialsuch assheet-iron, canvas, rubber-coated fabric, or the likethese shields oraprons 7 depending from a suitable supporting-frame S,mount ed upon theelevated frame of the machine.

rlhe means adopted for effecting the vibration of the beater-bar 5 areas follows: `On the hub of one of the supporting-Wheels 3` of themachine is a sprocket-wheel 9, which receives a chain 10, the latterbeing also adapted to a sprocket-Wheel 1l, which is free to turn on astud on the fixed frame of the machine and has formed with or secured toit a bevel-Wheel 2, which drives a bevel-pinion 13 on a short shaft 14,mounted in a bearing on the frame and having a crank-disk 15, thecrank-pin of the latter being connected by a rod 16 to an arm 17 on arock-shaft 18, likewise adapted to a suitable bearing on the fixed frameof the machine and having a slotted head 19 for the reception of thebeater-bar 5, the latter being vertically adjustable in said head andbeing secured after adjustment by means of a set-screw 2O in order thatthe beaters may bevertically adjusted to suit the height of the growingvines or plants being acted upon. Any desired means, however, may beused for imparting vibrating movement to the beater bar, and instead ofusing a single forked bar, as shown and described, two independent barsmay be used, one on each side of the row, a single forked bar beingpreferred as the cheaper and more convenient form. On the other hand, asingle beater only may be employed, and if such beater acts upon theplants from but one side one of the guards or shields 7 may also bedispensed with.

In order to lift the fallen plants or vines into the path of the beater,I employ lifterbars 2l, inclined at their forward ends, so as to rununder and raise the fallen vines, said lifter-bars being supported bypivoted arms 22 and by the frames which carry the cultivator blades orteeth, so as to be lifted out IOO of action simultaneously with saidblades or teeth.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patentl. The combination, in a machine for removing insectparasites from vines or plants, of a supporting-'frame, a vibratingbeater, means for vibrating the latter, and furrowing blades or teethfollowing the action of the beater, and servingto bury the insectsshalgen from the vines or plants by said beater.

2. The combination, in a machine for removing insect parasites frornvines or plants, of a supporting-frame, a vibrating beaterbar forked atthe lower end so as to carry a pair of beaters, and means for vibratingsaid beater-bar.

3. The combination in a machine for removinginsect parasites from vinesor plants, of a supporting-frame, a vibrating beater, means forvibrating the same, and lifters comprising bars inclined downwardly attheir forward ends, terminating near the ground and having elevatedportions in the rear of said downwardly-inclined portions whereby saidlifters are adapted to run under and raise from the ground fallen plantsor vines, thereby supporting the same in the path of the beater,substantially as described.

4. The combination, in a machine for removing insect parasites fromvines or plants, of a supporting-frame, a vibrating beater, means forvibrating the same, lifters for raising fallen plants or vines into thepath of the beater, furrowing-blades following the action of the beater,and means for hanging said blades and lifters, whereby they can beraised and lowered.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH BRAKELEY. lVituesses:

F. E. BECHTOLD, Jos. II. KLEIN.

